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Feb. 12, 2026 – Kennedy, who has been in recovery for 43 years, revealed that after the meetings were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he and other members would meet in private. He explained that they formed a “pirate” group that met in person.Kennedy has said his addiction began in the months after his father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., was assassinated in 1968, USA Today reports. He said his first experience was when he took the hallucinogen LSD at a party and then took opioids while he was walking home from the party.
“They said, ‘Try this,’ and it was a line of crystal meth,” Kennedy said during the April 2025 speech. “I took it, and all my problems went away. My addiction came on full force. By the end of the summer, I was shooting heroin, which was my drug of choice the next 14 years.”
